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Where to watch "Civilisations"
10. France, the Mont Saint-Michel
2020 - Season 1
The breathtaking abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel in Normandy, with its remarkable architecture and colorful history, has no equal anywhere in the world. Surrounded by a Gothic cloister, the Romanesque-style Benedictine abbey has a Gothic Revival spire and is located in the middle of a rocky island. It is a silent witness to the faith of the monks who built the building in the Middle Ages. It is an important pilgrimage site dedicated to the Holy Archangel Michael, but the place is also world famous for its unique location in a bay. Every day the tides provide a different view of the landscape and adapted rules for visitors and pilgrims who want to reach the place.
9. The Vital Spark
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Simon Schama explores the fate of art in the machine- and profit-driven world, looking at the rise of art as a tradeable commodity.
8. The Cult of Progress
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David Olusoga explores the artistic reaction to imperialism in the 19th century.
7. Radiance
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Simon Schama starts his meditation on colour and civilisation with the great Gothic cathedrals of Amiens and Chartres. He then moves to 16th-century Venice.
6. First Contact
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David Olusoga shows how art was always on the frontline when distant cultures met.
5. The Triumph of Art
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Simon Schama examines how traditions developed in the years following the Renaissances.
4. The Eye of Faith
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Mary Beard broaches the controversial, sometimes dangerous, topic of religion and art. For millennia, art has inspired religion as much as religion has inspired art.
3. Picturing Paradise
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Simon Schama examines one of our deepest artistic urges: the depiction of nature. Simon discovers that landscape painting is seldom a straightforward description of observed nature.
2. How Do We Look?
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Mary Beard explores images of the human body in ancient art, from Mexico and Greece to Egypt and China.
1. The Second Moment Of Creation
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Simon Schama looks at the formative role art and the creative imagination have played in the forging of humanity itself.
